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J. A. EVARTISQ Shade-Holder;

- gytented Feb. 10, 1880.

N. PETERS, PHOTD-LITHOGRAP UNITED STATES PATENT" O IC JOHN A. EVARTS, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY & HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF sAME rLAoE.

SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,411, dated February 10, 1880. Application filed July 19, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. EVAR'rs, of West Meriden, in'the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in Extension-Lamp Fixtures; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and thelettersof reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescrip.

IO tion of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in'- Figure 1, a side View, partly in section; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the upper part; Fig. 3, a section at the shade-ring; Fig. 4, a

view of the shade and ring, looking up.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of fixtures used for suspending lamps from the ceiling, and which. may be 2 raised or lowered at pleasure.

In this and similar classes of fixtures the shade-ring has been made to extend down around the outside of the neck of the shade,

;then screws'inserted radially and so as to engage in the groove of the neck of the shade. This construction necessitates a large or apparently heavy ring, and the screws are exposed to view.

The object of this invention is to avoid these unsightly parts of the fixture; and it consists in the constructionhereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the lamp or lamp-holder, from which rods B B extend upward and are united to a single-central rod, 0. This rod c,-is arranged to slide freely up and down ina stationary tube, D, the said tube being suspended from the ccilingin the usual manner for hang:

ing or securing such fixtures. .At the top of the tube D are two (more or less) pulleys, E, and around the tube D is' the weight F; or it may be otherwise arranged.

Chains a or other suitable devices are attached by one end to the upper end of the cen- 5 tral rod, 0, and run'over the pulleys E outward and downward, the other end being attached to the counterbalancing weight F; hence, when the lamp is pulled down, the chains run down inside the tube D with the rod 0, thus leaving only the single runof the chains exposed. This construction also gives a greater strength and firmness to the fixture than when the chainsextend'directly to the shade-rin g.

His the shade-ring; In this case it is made fast to the rods B, and need be but a simple flat ring a little larger in external diameter than theneck of the shade. Verticallythrough this ring severaliscrews, d, are arranged so that their heads will extend outward beyond the interior of the opening in the neck of the shade, and so that when the shade is set upon the ring, as seen in Fig. 3, the heads of the screws d may be turned to bear upon theinner surface of the shade and secure it to the ring,

as in Figs. 3.a nd 4. By this construction the usual clumsy ring and outside screws are avoided and a most secure engagement of shade and ring insured.

Two hook -shapedlugs may be formed upon or attached to the ring in place of two screws as supports. In that case a single screw will be sufficient. This part of the invention is applicable to holding shades other than for extension-fixtures.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming supporting a lamp-shade from the inside, as such I am aware is not new.

I claim- 1 The herein-described shade-support, consisting of the ring to rest upon the top of the shade, combined with supports extending down withinand beneath the neck, one of which supports is a screw arrangedso that its headwill hear upward upon the inside of the neck of the shade, all substantially as de-'85 scribed.

JOHN A. EVARTS. Witnesses:

WILBUR F. DAVIS,

I GEORGE A. FAY. 

